George Carlin Quotes
Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.
Carlin, George. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? Hyperion, 2004.
First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 1874-1944, invited Jessie DePriest the Black wife of a Congressman to tea at the White House. No Black woman had ever been there socially before. This was a typical Southern reaction. The Texas State legislature actually passed a resolution chastising the First Lady—the only such action in American history.
John Ashcroft was then the Attorney General and a foe of abortion.
The Vice President was on David Letterman's show when the host told an undignified joke about President William Clinton.
A meeting had been scheduled in Laos with American President Barak Obama a few days hence. Journalists and advisers told him to be prepared for Obama to criticize him for the over 1500 extrajudicial murders which he had encouraged thus denying his own citizens the most basic of human rights—the rights to live. Détente went into a tirade and made this statement. The United States cancelled the meeting.
George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comics of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of counterculture comedians". He was known for his dark comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects. His "seven dirty words" routine was central to the 1978 United States Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to censor indecent material on the public airwaves.